Patents by Inventor Larry G. Willis

Larry G. Willis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4324332
    Abstract: A mirror package for the display, handling and transporting of mirrors or like flat, rigid, yet relatively fragile, articles, being formed from a single blank of sheet material to which the mirror is rigidly and permanently affixed. The sheet material includes a central panel, larger in all directions than the mirror which is affixed thereto in spaced relation from all edges of the central panel, and forwardly folded flanges held rigidly in the forwardly folded relationship. The central panel is adapted to be severed by a consumer leaving the portion behind the mirror to function as a permanent backing for the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1982
    Assignee: Hamilton Glass Products Incorporated
    Inventor: Larry G. Willis
  • Patent number: 4103052
    Abstract: A window having the highly desirable appearance of being a plurality of panes each adjoined to adjacent panes by cross-bars having the triangular cross-section, on each face of the window, which is typical of the cross-bars of wooden divided sash, which appearance is created by the printing of a single design on only one side of the window with only one color, and incorporating unpainted areas to produce the illusion of three-dimensional depth of a triangular cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Assignee: National Gypsum Company
    Inventors: John J. Summers, Larry G. Willis